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Medical training application system - BMA media coverage reports

Coverage between February and July 2007
Coverage report - Junior Doctors Committee July to October 2006
Coverage report - Junior Doctors Committee May 2006
Media coverage on shortage of SHO posts - July 2005

Coverage between February and July 2007
BMA national press mentions and broadcasts

Broadcasts
Wednesday 1 August
Hamish Meldrum: BBC Radio 4 ‘Today programme’; Channel 4 News @ 7pm

Tom Dolphin: BBC 1 ‘Breakfast News’; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Radio Merseyside; BBC Radio Cleveland; BBC Radio Cumbria; Southern Counties Radio; BBC World Service

Ian Wilson: IRN; Sky News Radio; BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Radio Bristol; BBC News 24; BBC Radio 4 ‘PM programme’; BBC Three Counties Radio;

Ayesha Rahim: BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Asian Network; BBC Radio Manchester

Peter Taysum: ITV (Tyne Tees)

Johan Malawana: Channel 4 News @ 7pm

Tuesday 31 July
Paul Malone: BBC Newsnight

Tom Dolphin: BBC London TV

Ian Wilson: BBC World Service; BBC 1 ’10 o’clock News’

Fay Wilson: Smooth FM

Friday 27 July
Tom Dolphin: BBC London TV

Wednesday 25 July
Andrew Rowland: Sunrise radio

Friday 20 July
Eleanor Draeger: Sunrise Radio

Wednesday 20 June
Andrew O'Brien: BBC South East TV

Wednesday 23 May
Tom Dolphin: BBC News 24; IRN

Jo Hilborne: Channel 4 News

Monday 21 May
Jim Johnson: BBC R4 Today programme

Jonathan Fielden: More 4 News

Sunday 20 May
Jim Johnson: BBC TV News; Channel 4 News

Tuesday 15 May
Jo Hilborne: BBC R4 “Today”; BBC radio Nottingham; LBC

Masood Ahmed: BBC R5 Live; BBC R4 “PM Programme”

Sarah Blaynet: BBC Radio Merseyside

Tuesday 1 May
Emily Rigby: BBC News 24

Saturday 28 April
Andrew Rowland: Sunrise radio; BBC R5 Live; Sky News; BBC News 24; Yorkshire TV; IRN; Sky News Radio; LBC; BBC ‘Breakfast news’; BBC 1 ‘Evening news’; BBC Radio 4

Tom Dolphin: Sky News; BBC R5 Live; PA multimedia;

David Pring: BBC R5 Live

Jo Hilborne: BBC 1 ‘10 o’clock News’; BBC R5 Live; DNUK podcast;

Masood Ahmed: BBC R5 Live

Emily Rigby: Sky News; BBC News 24

Kitty Mohan: BBC R5 Live; Sky News

Craig Knott: BBC 1 News; BBC R5 Live

Ian Benton: Channel 4 News

Katie Bramall: Channel 4 News

Peter Taysum: Channel 4 News

Ram Moorthy: Sky News

Sam Everington: PA multimedia

Lucy-Jane Davies:Sky News

Friday 27 April
Richard Vautrey: BBC Radio Leeds; Real Radio

Wednesday 25 April
Jo Hilborne: Channel 4 News

Tuesday 24 April
Jo Hilborne: Real radio; IRN; BBC Radio 4 News; Channel 4 News (lunchtime and evening)

Andrew Rowland: BBC Radio Merseyside; BBC Radio Cleveland; BBC radio Coventry; BBC Radio Shropshire; Three Counties Radio; BBC Radio Bristol

Andrew O’Brien: BBC Southern Cities Radio

Tom Dolphin: GMTV; Sky News

Masood Ahmed: LBC; Colourful Radio; BBC Radio Hereford and Worcestershire

Jo Hilborne: Channel 4 News

Friday 20 April
Jo Hilborne: BBC Radio 4; Channel 4 Evening News

Thursday 19 April
Peter Taysum: BBC Look North

Wednesday 18 April
Andrew Thomson: Wave 102

Monday 16 April
Jo Hilborne: BBC R5 Live

Andrew Rowland: BBC News 24

Saturday 14 April
Andrew Thomson: Sky News Radio; IRN; R5 Live

Jo Hilborne: BBC Radio Wales

Jacky Davis: BBC News 24

Thursday 5 April
Tom Dolphin: R4 Today Programme

Tuesday 3 April
Tom Dolphin: Sunrise Radio; Radio 5 Live

Tuesday 29 March
Tom Dolphin: BBC Radio London

Monday 19 March
Tom Dolphin: BBC Radio New Zealand

Saturday 17 March
Tom Dolphin: Sky News; BBC Radio 4 ‘News briefing’; BBC Radio 5 Live ‘Morning reports’

Andrew Rowland: BBC Radio 4 ‘Today programme’; BBC 1 ‘Breakfast news’; BBC Radio Manchester; BBC Radio 5 Live ‘Breakfast news’

Graeme Eunson: Real Radio

Friday 16 March
Tom Dolphin: Sunrise Radio; BBC Radio London

Andy Fearnley: BBC Radio 4 ‘PM programme’

Wednesday 14 March
Graeme Eunson: BBC Radio Scotland Live

Sunday 11 March
Tom Dolphin: BBC 1 ‘Breakfast news’

Thursday 8 March
Tom Dolphin: BBC 1 Breakfast News; BBC News 24; BBC Radio Bristol

Alan Robertson: BBC Radio Scotland ‘Newsdrive’

Wednesday 7 March
Jonathan Fielden: BBC Radio 4 ‘Today programme’ at 7.52am

Tom Dolphin: BBC News 24; Channel 4 News - 12pm and 7pm bulletins

Rajesh Rajendran: BBC Radio Ulster

Stephen Austin: BBC Radio Ulster

May Bisharat: BBC Radio Ulster

Tuesday 6 March
Jo Hilborne: BBC News 24; BBC Radio 4 ‘6pm News bulletin’

Masood Ahmed: Saga Radio

Friday 2 March
Jo Hilborne: BBC Radio 4 ‘You & Yours’; BBC Radio Derby

Tom Dolphin: BBC Radio Cornwall; BBC Radio Solent

Tuesday 27 February
Jo Hilborne: Channel 4 News

National press cuttings
Thursday 2 August
The Guardian P. 11 (quote by Hamish Meldrum / Tom Dolphin / Ian Wilson)
Row goes on as 30,000 doctors start new jobs
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/news/0,,2139776,00.html

The London Paper P. 8
Doctors in new start carry-on

Daily Mail P. 9
Some hospitals scrap non-urgent operations

Wednesday 1 August
Daily Mail P. 19 (quote by Tom Dolphin / Ian Wilson)
Junior doctor chaos could go on for months
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=472207&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490

Daily Telegraph P. 4 (quote by Ian Wilson)
Hospitals in chaos as junior doctors still wait for jobs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/01/ndoctors101.xml

The Independent P.11
30,000 doctors to take up posts

The Guardian P. 36
What else can I do?
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,2138437,00.html

Tuesday 31 July
Daily Mail P. 1 and 6 (quote by Andrew Rowland)
Don’t be ill tomorrow!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=471950&in_page_id=1770

Evening Standard P. 11 (quote by Andrew O’Brien / Kitty Mohan)
Fears for patients as 2,300 new doctors start work tomorrow

BBC Online
Warnings as junior doctors start
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6924640.stm

Monday 30 July
The Sun P. 6
Doc fear at 32,000 ‘rookies’

Metro P. 8
Why it’s better not to fall ill this Wednesday

Sunday 29 July
The People P. 2 (quote by Hamish Meldrum / Andrew Rowland)
Hospitals short of 2,300 doctors
http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=hospitals-short-of-2-300-doctors%26method=full%26objectid=19537594%26siteid=93463-name_page.html

The Guardian
30,000 doctors to start on same day –PA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6814174,00.html

Saturday 28 July
Daily Telegraph P. 1 and 7 (quote by Eleanor Draeger)
Junior doctor fiasco ‘delaying operations’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/28/nhs128.xml

Daily Mail P. 39 (quote by Eleanor Draeger)
Operations cancelled over shortage of junior doctors

24dash.com
Patients could face surgery cancellations due to training reforms
http://www.24dash.com/health/25160.htm

Wednesday 25 July
The Guardian P. 6
Botched operation
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,2133534,00.html

Sunday 22 July
Sunday Telegraph P. 9
Doctors’ jobs fiasco drives record numbers abroad
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2007/07/22/ndocs122.xml

Saturday 21 July
The Guardian P. 20 (quote by Hamish Meldrum)
Patients at risk if filling of doctor posts not speeded up, says BMA
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2131513,00.html

Friday 20 July
Daily Telegraph P. 14 (quote by Hamish Meldrum)
Shorter training ‘will put patient care at risk’

Channel 4 News
Doctors in standards drop fear
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/doctors+in+standards+drop+fear/612347

Wednesday 18 July
Daily Telegraph P. 6 (quote by Jo Hilborne)
Apology for junior doctors
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/18/norgan318.xml

Monday 16 July
The Times P. 18
Letters: Disillusioned doctors

Friday 13 July
Daily Telegraph P. 6 (quote by Jo Hilborne)
‘What will happen to 13,000 doctors with no NHS job?’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/13/ndocs113.xml

Thursday 12 July
The Guardian P. 14
Failed recruitment website cost £1.9m

Daily Express P.8 (quote by Tom Dolphin)
Junior doctors fiasco

BBC News Online
Most junior doctor posts 'filled'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6895622.stm

Western Mail
2m cost of doctors' jobs system
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/tm_headline=-pound-2m-cost-of-doctors-jobs-system%26method=full%26objectid=19443550%26siteid=50082-name_page.html

Friday 6 July
Evening Standard P. 1 and 5 (quote by Hamish Meldrum)
NHS revolving door of terror

Tuesday 3 July
Daily Telegraph P. 21 (Letter from Tom Dolphin)
Junior doctor disaster
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/07/03/nosplit/dt0301.xml#head4

Friday 29 June
The Times P. 38
GP elected as new leader
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2002614.ece

Daily Telegraph P. 10
Confusion over CVs hits junior doctors
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/29/ndocs129.xml

Evening Standard P. 16 (quote by Johann Malawana)
Application chaos leaves 1,000 junior doctors out of work

Tuesday 26 June
Daily Telegraph P. 1 and 2
NHS fiasco leaves 4,000 jobs unfilled
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/26/ndoctors126.xml

The Sun P. 6
Blunder put 4,000 docs out of work

The Guardian P. 16
Doctors call for chief medical officer to quit
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/Story/0,,2111112,00.html

The Times P. 21
Health chief’s reforms ‘not fit for purpose’

Monday 25 June
The Independent P. 38 (Letter from Jonathan Fielden & Hamish Meldrum)
Letters: When doctors lead, patients benefit
http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article2705329.ece

Evening Standard P. 22
Labour has lost support of doctors says BMA boss

Evening Standard P. 16
Doctors demand scalp of the chief medical officer

Saturday 23 June
Daily Mail P. 4 (quote by Jo Hilborne)
Doctors ‘are suicidal’

Daily Telegraph P. 8 (quote by Jo Hilborne)
Fiasco over recruitment leaves one in five junior doctors feeling suicidal
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/23/nhs123.xml

Friday 22 June
Evening Standard P. 2 (quote by Jo Hilborne)
Jobs fiasco drives junior doctors to consider suicide

Tuesday 5 June
Daily Telegraph P.11
Medical chief ‘should quit over training shambles’

Monday 4 June
The Times P. 4 (quote by Jo Hilborne)
Doctors advertise for training posts

Evening Standard P. 16
President of the BMA warned colleagues not to descend into infighting over junior doctor training chaos

Channel 4 News Online (quote by Parveen Kumar)
'Infighting' fears in doctor row
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/infighting+fears+in+doctor+row/544787

Wednesday 30 May
The Guardian P. 31 (Letter from Hamish Meldrum)
NHS policy surplus to requirements
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/comment/0,,2090972,00.html

Monday 28 May
The Times P. 16
Letters: Junior doctors

Sunday 27 May
The Sunday Telegraph P. 17
Another fine mess

The Sunday Telegraph P. 35
Health of the nation

The Sunday Times P. 2
Surgeons’ leader accuses Hewitt

Friday 25 May
The Times P. 38
Doctors are offered extra training posts to ease crisis

Metro P. 2
Hewitt promises 200 extra jobs

Thursday 24 May
The Times P. 35 and 22 (quote by Jo Hilborne)
Job shortlists for junior doctors are lawful but flawed, senior judge says
Join the debate – Junior doctors

Daily Express P. 19 (quote by Jo Hilborne)
Midwives deliver humiliating rebuff to health minister

Tuesday 22 May
Evening Standard P. 2
Doctors can appeal over flawed job system, says judge

The Times P. 18
Letters: Time runs out to find jobs for junior doctors

The Independent P. 26
Editorial: Health Service – A case for treatment

Evening Standard P. 2
Hewitt told to guarantee doctors a job

Metro P. 24
BMA chief quits in row over letter

Monday 21 May
Evening Standard P. 11
Pressure on Hewitt as BMA chief quits

Daily Express P.2
BMA boss quits over jobs fiasco

Daily Telegraph P.1 &2 (James Johnson, David Pickersgill quotes)
BMA chief forced out by online crisis

The Times P.1
BMA chairman quits over Times letter

Daily Mail P.8 (James Johnson quote)
Exit BMA chief in junior doctors computer fiasco

Daily Mirror P.2
Doctors chief quits in web jobs fiasco

Financial Times P.4
BMA chairman quits post

The Times P.6 (James Johnson quote)
BMA chief quits after damaging defence of failed training system

The Independent P.9
BMA chief quits over botched job system

The Sun P.2
BMA boss quits

The Guardian P.1 and 2 (James Johnson, David Pickersgill quotes)
Doctors chief quits over training fiasco

Sunday 20 May
Sunday Times P.2
U-turn over jobs puts Hewitt on critical list

Saturday 19 May
Daily Telegraph P. 1 and 2
Hewitt misled MPs on junior doctor fiasco

Thursday 17 May
The Times P. 18 (from James Johnson & Carol Black)
Letters: Junior doctors

Wednesday 16 May
Daily Sport P.2 (Andrew Rowland quote)
Jobs U-turn for Hewitt

Daily Express P.12
A calamitous NHS from a clapped-out Government

Daily Express P.19 (Andrew Rowland quote)
It makes you sick

Daily Mail P.20 (Andrew Rowland quote)
Hewitt is forced to abandon doctors’ job system

Financial Times P.6 (Andrew Rowland quote)
Security breaches close NHS job website

Daily Telegraph P.23
Hewitt shouldn’t have the chance to resign

Daily Telegraph P.1 and 2 (Andrew Rowland quote)
Minister admits defeat on doctors’ job fiasco

Guardian P.4 (Andrew Rowland quote)
Hewitt backs down in junior doctors row

Times P.2 (Andrew Rowland quote)
Ministers cave in over junior doctors’ job computer system
Hewitt slow off the mark - commentary

Tuesday 15 May
Evening Standard P.2 (Andrew Rowland quote)
Hewitt finally scraps online system for doctors jobs

Saturday 5 May
Daily Telegraph P.24
Hewitt is not what the doctors ordered

Wednesday 2 May
The Times P. 20
Beep…Beep! Nurse! We’re losing her

Sunday 29 April
Sunday Telegraph P. 10
Doctors are denied training so NHS can balance books

Independent on Sunday P. 14
Doctors call on Hewitt to quit over training move

News of the World P. 19
Doctors’ quit call

The Sunday Times P. 2
Doctors attack online jobs team

The People P. 5
Junior docs blast Hewitt

Saturday 28 April
Daily Telegraph P. 12
‘Give Health Secretary a taste of her own medicine’

The Independent P. 18
Doctors attack training reforms

The Guardian P. 8
Doctors to attack training changes at conference

Evening Standard P. 6
Computer rejects Surrey doctor for being ‘foreign’

Friday 27 April
Daily Mirror P.4
Doc jobs website is closed

Daily Telegraph P.2 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Hewitt faces storm over website leaks

The Times P.22
Letters: Junior doctors’ dilemmas

Thursday 26 April
The Times P.9 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Online glitch puts doctors’ personal details on view

Daily Telegraph P.1, 2 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Medical students’ personal details leaked

The Guardian P.14 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Junior doctors’ personal details made public in website blunder

Evening Standard P.23 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Web blunder leaves doctors details on show

Metro London P.5 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Security flaw hits doctors’ website

Wednesday 25 April

The Independent P. 31
The early skirmish in a long war

Daily Telegraph P.2
NHS shambles is driving the best junior doctors abroad, say Tories

Tuesday 24 April
London Metro P.2
NHS chaos will force docs out

Financial Times P.4
Junior doctors go overseas after applications disaster

The Guardian P.35 (Jacky Davis quote)
Doctors don’t want golf – they want empowerment

Saturday 21 April
Daily Telegraph P. 1 and 2 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Thousands of jobless doctors to be shipped overseas

The Guardian P.7(Jo Hilborne quote)
Jobless junior doctors may be offered VSO work

Tuesday 17 April
Daily Mail P.5 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Hewitt orders another inquiry into doctors’ training debacle

Daily Express P.4 (BMA mention)
But Hewitt gives a direct apology to young doctors

The Times P.6 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Hewitt regrets doctor training errors

Daily Telegraph P.4 (BMA mention)
Hewitt apologises over training chaos

Monday 16 April
The Times P.4 (James Johnson quote)
Doctors demand training guarantee

Saturday 14 April
Daily Telegraph P.14 (Andrew Thomson quote)
Half of young doctors will quit

The Guardian P.15,16
Health warning

Thursday 5 April
Daily Mail P.8 (Jonathan Fielden quote)
Compromise ends the row over junior doctors

The Times P.11 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Junior doctors accept practical compromise

Wednesday 4 April
The Times P.12
Specialists urge ditching of system to promote doctors
Letters P18: Time to junk the appointments system for doctors

Tuesday 3 April
Evening Standard P. 6
Hewitt says sorry over junior doctor jobs fiasco

Saturday 31 March
The Times P.8
Junior doctors’ training chief quits

Thursday 29 March
The Independent P.40
Letters: These are dire days for young doctors

Daily Telegraph P.25
Letters: NHS breakdown

Wednesday 28 March
Metro P. 4
BMA slams junior doctor hire scheme

Tuesday 27 March
Daily Telegraph P.23
Letters: Medical chaos

Monday 26 March
The Independent P.30
Letters: Appalling treatment of junior doctors

Saturday 24 March
Daily Mail P13, 28 and 29 (Jo Hilborne quote)
Junior doctors abandon job talks

Daily Telegraph P.1 (BMA mention)
Doctors offered job interviews as online system is scrapped
Letters: Doctors training system is plunged into new absurdity

The Times P.11 (BMA mention)
BMA backs out

Friday 23 March
Evening Standard P.24 (BMA mention quote by Jo Hilborne)
BMA quits talks on junior doctors

Thursday 22 March
Daily Telegraph P.12 (BMA mention)
Pressure on to scrap recruiting process)

Daily Telegraph P.23
Letters: No jobs for doctors

Wednesday 21 March
The Times P. 18 (BMA mention)
Letters: Young doctors and training problems

Friday 16 March
The Times P. 37 (BMA mention)
Junior doctor selection chaos will ‘block medical progress in Britain’

Daily Telegraph P. 27 (BMA mention)
Letters: Doctors’ training debacle and the destruction of a profession

Daily Telegraph P. 14
Training system for junior doctors at ‘breaking point’

Thursday 15 March
Daily Telegraph P. 6 (BMA mention)
Top specialist joins the junior doctors’ protest

Monday 12 March
Daily Telegraph P. 11 (BMA mention)
Hewitt told ‘a year ago’ about likely crisis over doctors’ jobs’

Metro P. 4 (BMA quote)
Scrap job system, say junior doctors

Sunday 11 March
Sunday Telegraph P. 25 (BMA mention)
A bungled reform a day keeps the junior doctors away

The Sunday Times P. 2 & 7 (BMA mention)
Inquiry urged on junior doctors

Saturday 10 March
The Guardian P. 5 (BMA mention)
Climbdown over NHS job rules for doctors

Daily Mail P. 2 (BMA mention)
Interview chaos forces a U-turn over doctors

Daily Express P. 5 (BMA mention)
U-turn over jobs for doctors

Friday 9 March
Daily Telegraph P. 14 (BMA mention)
Growing boycott of ‘flawed’ recruitment

Daily Telegraph P. 25
Letters: Fears for patients

The Guardian P. 39
Letters: Community loses out in NHS cuts

Thursday 8 March
Daily Telegraph P. 8 (BMA mention quote by Jonathan Fielden)
Doctors furious over ‘arrogance’ of ministers

Daily Telegraph P. 23 (BMA mention)
Letters: Boycott of disastrous career interview system for doctors

Daily Mail P. 4 (BMA mention)
Prescription for turmoil

Wednesday 7 March
The Guardian P. 6 (BMA mention quote by Jo Hilborne & Jonathan Fielden)
Review may scrap selection process for junior doctors

The Times P. 2 (BMA mention quote by Jo Hilborne)
Health chiefs retreat in row over training for junior doctors

Daily Telegraph P. 1 (BMA mention quote by Jo Hilborne)
Minister in climb-down over junior doctor fiasco

Daily Mail P. 10 (BMA mention quote by Jo Hilborne)
Mutinous junior doctors win review into jobs scramble

The Sun P. 2 (BMA mention quote by Jo Hilborne)
Doc jabs debacle

The Times P. 18
Letters: All trained up, nowhere to go

Daily Mail P. 69
Letters: Doctors in despair

Daily Telegraph P. 23
Letters: NHS only held together by staff goodwill and commitment

Evening Standard P. 20 (BMA mention quote by Tom Dolphin)
Job plea by junior doctors is rejected

Evening Standard P. 12 (BMA mention)
Editorial: Carry-on fiasco of NHS recruiting

Tuesday 6 March
The Times P. 20 (BMA mention quote by Jo Hilborne)
Surgeons quit ‘unfair’ panel picking doctors for training

Daily Telegraph P. 6 (BMA mention quote by Jonathan Fielden)
Surgeons risk their jobs over ‘flawed’ system for appointing junior doctors

The Guardian P. 33 (BMA mention)
Doctors who face the dole

Monday 5 March
The Daily Telegraph P. 1 & 8 (BMA mention)
Training crisis is driving doctors abroad, says BMA

The Guardian P. 31
Letters: Doctors’ training heading for disaster

The Independent P. 30
Letters: NHS application system has meant job chaos for junior doctors

The Daily Telegraph P. 21
Letters: Anger at NHS management as doctors face bleak future

Sunday 4 March
News of the World P. 21 (BMA mention quote by Tom Dolphin)
Docs axed in crazy job test

Mail on Sunday P. 84
Letters: My 10 years of doctor training is thrown away by the NHS

Saturday 3 March
The Times P. 4 (BMA mention)
Doctors to protest over jobs shortage

Daily Mail P. 53 (BMA mention quote by Jo Hilborne)
8,000 junior doctors ‘might have to go abroad for work’

The Guardian P. 28 (BMA mention)
Dr Work – Junior doctors fear new policy will lead to job losses

The Guardian P. 35 (BMA mention)
Letters: Why junior doctors are being dumped

Daily Telegraph P. 1
Doctor training ‘spiralling into chaos’

Daily Telegraph P. 8
Doctors chaos ‘is worst crisis to hit NHS’

Daily Telegraph P. 27
Letters; No firm could treat professionals as the NHS treats doctors

The Guardian P. 12
Junior doctors plan to mount legal challenge over job rules

Friday 2 March
Daily Telegraph P. 1 and 4 (BMA mention quote by Tom Dolphin)
Despair of junior doctors left with no job

Daily Telegraph P. 4 (BMA mention)
In my hospital, those crying the hardest are the staff

The Guardian P. 5 (BMA mention)
Junior doctors driven abroad by new system

The Guardian P. 39 (BMA mention)
Letters: Bad prognosis for junior doctors

The Times P. 18 (BMA mention)
Letters: Trained young doctors condemned to the scrapheap

Evening Standard (BMA mention)
New NHS system leaves junior doctors jobless

Daily Telegraph P. 25
Letters: Despair & frustration as highly trained doctors face an uncertain future

Thursday 1 March
Daily Telegraph P. 1
Letters: Computerised job applications are ruining doctors’ futures

The Guardian P. 39
Letters: NHS shock and awe

Wednesday 28 February
Daily Telegraph P. 6 (BMA mention)
Computer chaos hits junior doctor job hopes

The Times P. 31 (BMA mention)
Medical ‘shambles’

Metro P. 4 (BMA mention)
BMA slams junior doctor hire scheme

Daily Telegraph P. 23
Letters: Doctors in despair

Coverage report - Junior Doctors Committee - July to October 2006
Interviews/Broadcasts

• Tue, 26 September 2006 - Andrew Rowland - Sky News Radio - Train not Drain
• Mon, 25 September 2006 - Masood Ahmed - Sunrise Radio - Train not Drain
• Wed, 20 September 2006 - Graeme Eunson - STV - Modernising Medical Careers
• Wed, 20 September 2006 - Graeme Eunson - BBC Radio Scotland / Real Radio - Modernising Medical Careers
• Tue, 1 August 2006 - Omer Moghraby - BBC Radio 4 'You & Yours' - Working in the heat
• Wed, 12 July 2006 - Jo Hilborne - BBC Radio 4 ‘You & Yours’ - Visa restrictions for overseas doctors

National press cuttings
6 October 2006
- Daily Mirror P. 34
1 in 6 tired docs crash

3 October 2006
- The Independent P. 10
Bad Medicine – Radical changes to the training of doctors will cost lives

2 October 2006
- The Daily Telegraph P. 28
The health service is crying out for more medics, nurses, midwives and therapists.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2006/10/02/hnhs02.xml&sSheet=/health/2006/10/02/ixhmain.html

30 September 2006
- The Daily Telegraph P. 8
22,000 training posts for doctors

26 September 2006
- Evening Standard P. 18
Doctors ‘to quit over training’

Daily Mail P. 4
£1.4bn exodus of new doctors in jobs squeeze
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=406978&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=

The Daily Telegraph P. 4
Young doctors ‘ready to quit if they can’t land training posts’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/26/ndoctors26.xml

Daily Express P. 17
Fears of doctor ‘exodus’ as NHS posts slashed

The Times P.2
Call to delay medics’ scheme

Metro P. 15
Fears over NHS doctor brain drain

24 September 2006
The Observer P.19
Surgeons’ lack of training ‘unsafe’
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1879659,00.html

3 September 2006
News of the World P. 2
Doctors clocked

23 August 2006
Daily Mirror
Docs still working too long
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17607998%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=docs-still-working-too-long--name_page.html

19 July 2006
Daily Mail P. 8
Doctors who could be poisoning their patients

11 July 2006
Daily Mail P. 48
It cost the NHS £1m to train us. So why can’t we find jobs?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=395095&in_page_id=1774&in_a_source=

Selection of online news/Cuttings
'Waste' of doctors without jobs
BBC Online – Mon, 9 Oct 2006:
Dr Julian Ahmed has applied for hundreds of jobs but works as a DJ Budget cuts in South East NHS hospital trusts mean trained doctors are unable to find jobs, according to the BMA.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6033357.stm

Junior medics have more 'crashes'
BBC Online – Thu, 5 Oct 2006:
Long hours increase doctor’s risk of traffic accidents. Junior doctors are being put at increased risk of road traffic accidents because of exhaustion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5408986.stm

NHS 'raids' skills cash to balance the books
Yorkshire Post – Thu, 5 Oct 2006:
HEALTH chiefs are risking new shortages of doctors and nurses by plundering millions of pounds earmarked for vital training in a desperate effort to tackle the NHS financial crisis.
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1805292

We need a debate about NHS reform
The Guardian– Wed, 27 Sep 2006:
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1881720,00.html

BMA warns of medical skills drain
InTheNews.co.uk – Tue, 26 Sep 2006:
New training programmes for doctors could force a skills drain away from the NHS, the BMA has warned.
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news/health/bma-warns-medical-skills-drain-$452890.htm

'Unnecessary' Caesareans warning
BBC Online – Fri, 22 Sep 2006:
Births by emergency Caesarean may often be unnecessary, a group of obstetricians has warned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5368600.stm

Young doctors revolt over training reform
The Scotsman – Wed, 20 Sep 2006:
YOUNG doctors in Scotland yesterday threatened to rebel in protest at proposed changes to their training, amid growing fears that the new regime will lead to a medical 'brain-drain'.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1389012006

New warning over doctors' hours
BBC Online – Tue, 22 Aug 2006:
Junior doctors' working hours are still intense, the BMA warns junior doctors are still working so hard their performance can suffer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/5274632.stm

NHS training budget cut by £150m
HES Magazine – Tue, 01 Aug 2006:
New figures released show that NHS training budgets have been cut by £150 million. The figures, obtained by the Conservative Party under the Freedom of Information Act, show a training budget under-spend in 2005/06 of over £150m.
http://www.hesmagazine.com/story.asp?sectionCode=196&storyCode=2037891

Coverage report - Junior Doctors Committee (May 2006)
Interviews/Broadcasts
Jo Hilborne: Sky News
Andrew Rowland: Sky News
Eleanor Draeger: Sky News

National press cuttings
Daily Mail P. 41 (circulation 2,426,533)
800 NHS jobs to go at trust with £21m debts

News of the World P.2 (circulation 3,649,466)
Jr docs defy PM

The People P. 6 (circulation 1,007,140)
£5-A-Night for NHS bed

Regional press cuttings
The Journal (Newcastl) P. 36
Medic warning

Huddersfield Daily Examiner P.2
Doctors in skills warning

East Anglian Daily Times (Essex)
BMA consultants fear

Western Daily Press (Bristol) P. 5
BMA fears skills gap

Shropshire Star P. 7
Warning on plans for new doctors

Scarborough Evening News P. 8
Patients ‘not able to see consultants’

Northants Evening Telegraph P. 10
Doctors warning

Northampton Chronicle & Echo P. 4
Consultants warning

Hull Daily mail P. 6 and 47
Plan to doctors’ grades attacked / Doctors skills

Birmingham Mail P. 18
Alert over consultant shake-up

Cambridge Evening News P. 12
Patients ‘can’t see consultant’

Grimsby Telegraph P. 6
BMA warning

Jersey Evening Post P. 10
Medics warning

Heartland Evening News (Nuneaton) P. 2
Patients ‘cannot see consultant’

Express & Star (Wolverhampton)
Warning on new grade of doctors

Derby Evening Telegraph P. 10
Warning on medic plan

Sunday Sun (Newcastle) P. 15
Junior doctors rebel over NHS ‘massacre’

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) P. 8
Docs vote for ‘public’ NHS

Selection of online news/Cuttings
Medics slam 'short-sighted' cuts
BBC Online:
The sweeping job cuts being seen across the NHS have been condemned as 'short-sighted' by leading medics.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4976778.stm

'Keep Our NHS Public' campaign
24dash.com:
Junior doctors voted today to support a campaign to halt the "unprecedented process of privatisation" of the NHS.
http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?navID=47&newsID=5481

Calls For Hewitt's Head
Sky News & Channel 5 News website:
Junior doctors will debate a motion calling on Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt to resign when they meet for their annual conference later today. They are angry about plans to replace NHS consultants with a new grade of doctor with less expertise and autonomy.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1220872,00.html

BMA warns over new doctor grade
Daily Mail Online:
A patient's ability to see an NHS consultant is at risk because of the Government's "misguided" plans to use less qualified doctors, the British Medical Association has warned.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=385297&in_page_id=1770

Doctors in skills warning
Huddersfield Daily Examiner:
http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=17046661%26method=full%26siteid=50060%26headline=doctors%2din%2dskills%2dwarning-name_page.html

BMA warns over new doctor grade
The Guardian:
A patient's ability to see an NHS consultant is at risk because of the Government's "misguided" plans to use less qualified doctors, the British Medical Association has warned.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-5802859,00.html

This article also appeared on the following local websites (links no longer available):

Bradford Telegraph, The Press and Journal (Scotland), Derbyshire Evening Telegraph, Teesside.co.uk, Huddersfield.co.uk, Western Mail, Berkshire Online, SouthLondon.co.uk, North London Online, Uxbridge.co.uk, SurreyOnline.co.uk, Harrow.co.uk, Newcastle.co.uk, Essex.co.uk, Cheshire Online, NorthWales.co.uk, Croydon, Scotland.co.uk, Birmingham.co.uk, Hounslow.co.uk, Ealing.co.uk,
Coventry Online, This is London, Solihull.co.uk, Staines.co.uk, Kent Online, Liverpool.co.uk

Coverage report - Shortage of SHO posts - July 2005
Interviews/broadcasts
Thursday 28 July 2006
Mr Simon Eccles - Sky News Radio / Capital Radio / Sunrise Radio London /
BBC 2 ‘Working Lunch’ / BBC Radio Leicester

Kailash Chand - Channel M (Manchester Radio)

Sunday 31July
Mr Simon Eccles: BBC Radio 5 Live

Monday 1 August
Andrew Thompson: BBC Radio 5 Live / BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester

Tuesday 2 August
Simon Eccles: ITV Central West

Wednesday 3 August
Andrew Rowland - BBC Radio 5 Live / GMR / BBC Radio 4 ‘You & Yours’ / LBC

Friday 5 August
Andrew Rowland - BBC Radio East Midlands / BBC TV Manchester

Tuesday 9 August
Simon Eccles - BBC Radio 4 / BBC 1 ‘Breakfast News’ / BBC 1 ‘1 o’clock News’
Tom Dolphin - BBC News 24 / BBC Radio 5 Live
William Birts - BBC News 24
David Baker - BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Andrew Thomson - BBC Radio Essex

Wednesday 10 August
Simon Eccles - Sky News

National press cuttings
Thursday 28 July
The Times P. 2 (circulation 679,190)
Doctors will quit because of jobs logjam, says BMA
Quote: Simon Eccles

The Guardian P. 8 (circulation 366,645)
Young doctors being left without jobs, BMA warns
Quote: Simon Eccles

London Metro P. 7 (circulation 495,703)
Doctors are being ‘left out of work’
Quote: Simon Eccles

The Times P. 18
Unemployed junior doctors

Daily Mail P.4 (circulation 2,426,533)
Betrayed by the NHS, the 2,000 new doctors who can’t find a job
Quote: Simon Eccles

Daily Express P. 2 (circulation 948,375)
Our doctors on the dole (circulation 948,375)
Quote: Simon Eccles

Tuesday 2 August
Daily Mail P. 41
The NHS spent thousands to train me as a junior doctor. So why, despite massive staff shortages, can’t it find me a job?

The Times P. 2
The Top Stories

Wednesday 3 August
Daily Express P. 1
Scandal of the doctor who can’t find a job
Quote: Simon Eccles

Daily Mail P. 4
My one hope of a job may be in New Zealand

Daily Mail P. 5
My shattered dream
Quote: Simon Eccles

Daily Star P. 2 (circulation 845,480)
Doctors on the dole – NHS blow for trainee medics
Quote: Simon Eccles

Daily Star P. 6
Editorial Comment: A case for treatment

Daily Star P. 11
Vanessa Feltz – All adds up to disaster

Daily Express P. 27
Doctors on the dole

Daily Express P. 44
Letter of the Day – Jobless doctors’ scandal needs urgent remedy
From Dr Jo Hilborne

Daily Express P. 44
Letters: We strive to ensure all junior doctors find posts

Friday 5 August
Daily Mail P. 19
Trained and talented, the doctor now in the waiting room for a job

Saturday 6 August
Daily Mail P. 17
Blunders ‘threaten the jobs of 10,000 doctors’
Quote: Simon Eccles

The Times P. 3
Well, well…
Quote: Simon Eccles

Sunday 7 August
The Sunday Times P. 3 (circulation 1,400,873)
What’s up doc? Lack of jobs, that’s what
Quote: Tom Dolphin

Monday 8 August
Evening Standard P. 1 (circulation 345,776)
Doctor in despair
Quote: Simon Eccles
Daily Mail P. 60
Our doctors should be first in line

The Daily Telegraph P.17
Can we really have too many doctors?

Tuesday 9 August
The Times P. 11
Doctors to be tested on bedside manner

Financial Times P. 2 (circulation 419,386)
Doctors to focus on patient safety

Regional papers
Thursday 28 July
Express and Star (Wolverhampton) P. 10
Junior doctors are missing out on jobs

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle) P. 19
Doctors facing dole queues

Hull Daily Mail P. 28
Bleak future

Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Lack of jobs shock

Evening Courier (Halifax) P. 3
Jobs fears for young doctors

Friday 29 July
Bristol Evening Post P. 1
I’m a doctor, give me a job

Western Morning News (Devon & Cornwall) P. 25
Jobless doctors

Saturday 30 July
Blackpool Gazette P. 7
Junior doctors may face the dole

Monday 1 August
Evening News (Norwich) P. 4
Competition could leave junior doctors without jobs

Worcester News P. 4
I’m a qualified doc, but I just can’t get a job

Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) P. 5
Job boost for new doctors

Wednesday 3 August
Birmingham Post P. 1
Plight of the young doctors who can’t get jobs

Birmingham Post P. 10
Poor Health

Shropshire Star P. 17
Doctors in despair as jobs dry up

Evening Herald (Plymouth) P. 3
What’s up, Doc?

Thursday 4 August
Bath Chronicle P. 1
Dole queue beckons for young medics

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle) P. 6
Junior doctor posts on rise

Saturday 6 August
The Journal (Newcastle) P. 2
Doctor on the dole goes to PM

The Journal (Newcastle) P. 10
The cure is to create some jobs

Selection of online news/cuttingsThursday 28 July
BBC News Online
Junior doctors face unemployment
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4720905.stm

Yorkshire Post Today
Doctors 'facing jobless future'
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1097739

Manchester Evening News
Scandal of the jobless doctors
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/health/s/167/167520_scandal_of_the_jobless_doctors.html

Politics.co.uk
Doctors warn of job shortages
http://www.politics.co.uk/public-services/health/doctors-warn-job-shortages-$15012774.htm#

Friday 29 July
The Scotsman
Junior doctors facing jobless future
http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=1696812005

Wednesday 3 August
BBC News Online
Life as an unemployed doctor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4741489.stm

Monday 8 August
BBC News Online
Junior doctors’ training revamped
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4131420.stm